AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK I wouldn't want to turn down work but there is more capable hardware that would not need this to be implemented. The result would be a superior product in hardware and firmware.

@jmw150 I was included in a publication this semester. The number of genuine fucks given by the faculty is the square root of negative one.

@freemo he graduated from my University with my degree in the summer of love, got married and was sent to Vietnam.

@freemo That was the same war that had bastards spitting on returning soldiers. When your country hates you, you had to kill armed children shooting at your platoon and you saw war crimes daily. It was fucked up. The veterans of Vietnam I've talked to would cry or avoid talking about it. One was very close to me, he talked about an ambush on his base. His CO ran to deliver coordinates to him and he got shot in the back of the head and collapsed on my friend. Over a dozen Americans died in the attack, they stopped counting the vietnamese attackers after around 40 something. Those were only the ones found dead on the base.

@freemo Those troops were armed with M14 rifles or M1 Garrand rifles. 7.62 NATO and the 30-06 (7.62x63mm round effective at 960m). A single shot would kill or severely wound a person. The 7.62 NATO round was originally the .308 Winchester big game round. It's good for bears.

@freemo That was justified. The protesters were more violent than portrayed. It only takes one gunshot to put a squad in kill mode. Police would have killed more protesters. They are better at shooting unarmed people in the back.

I'm wondering if Covid affects the brain as I am more quickly angered and will react differently. It could be the gastrointestinal issues, fatigue and pain in my chest. I've had it twice with a 14 month break. I had a faster reaction this time with a shorter duration. It was approximately 3 days in duration of symptoms compared to the 5 before. I don't want to try my luck with a third time. It's the last consecutive single digit prime number.

Still recovering from Covid's aftermath. I checked my blood O2 readings and confusion, 99%-100% O2. I thought it was broken so I held my breath after exhaling. At first it didn't read and I was already starting to have to suppress the panic. It dropped to 94%. I filled my lungs with the chemicals and it jumped back to 99%. I think my lungs are in good shape.

If someone hijacks my work, make sure to give them plenty of respect. Not going well with the University rn. No line between my work and their bullshit in their eyes.

@PawelK it's a great accomplishment. Hopefully it fully frees up the hardware.

Nutcracker Challenge hopefully finished.

@lupyuen Glad you got one. I'm sticking with my Braveheart.

@lupyuen I'm working on the map files for the elfs. It should help things go much more smoothly than it is currently going. I'll upload them when I'm finished for tonight/this morning. I'm hoping to knock all the blobs out. Next is going to be the fun part.

It's not a simple process, in action, and it can be rather hazardous to health and the environment. The upside is that it doesn't have to be this way. Factories that recycle Lead from car batteries are specialized to minimize exposure to workers and produce high quality lead in high yields. The amount of lead that is recycled to use in new batteries is approximately 80% of all lead batteries sold. A big reason for this is that Lead is toxic and 10 kilograms of lead, sulfuric acid and salts of lead are very bad for the environment.

@Ozzy98 @thunderdragon900 And the 110% yield fallacy appears. There will always be loss but purity and capacity don't have to be included in this statement. If I were to recycle electrical wire, I could get a higher purity than producing from regular Copper. The redemption of recycling a closed system is that the more difficult to separate contaminants are going to be in very low concentrations.

@thunderdragon900 the chemical energy disassociates due to entropy. This is the shortest answer. Many metals can be "won" back by an application of Electrochemistry. Unfortunately this requires the battery to be destroyed to do. It will always take energy to recycle. This is not as much of Newtown Physics as it is separating the ions. Chemistry can be used but it requires energy to produce the reagents and purity the metal.

@thunderdragon900 With a simple example of a common battery, the lead acid battery, it is easier to explain just how these cells degrade. The lead exists in two forms, elemental and an oxide. Electrons flow from one electode to the other with the help of an electrolyte. Commonly the lead acid batteries die due to a single cell that brings the voltage down to an unusable level.

@thunderdragon900 Yes they can but it's not magic. The different Chemistries have different characteristics. These are called secondary batteries (because they can be recharged). Over time the chemical reactants become unusable. The Physics behind this is very important. It's actually Electrochemical Engineering but it's Physics (and Chemistry).

@thunderdragon900 Usually it's an industrial process as Lithium is not something that can be toyed with.

@lupyuen Forgiveness is the only true path forward. " An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

I'll swallow my pride and salt my wounds. Belligerence will not make anything better. The only afterlife I believe in is an ethereal collective consciousness that was our finger print on the world. I'd rather make it a better place.